A woman gave birth in the bathroom of a four-star hotel across the road from a
maternity ward after being sent home by midwives who told her that she had
plenty of time to wait.

Michelle Booth, 39, called the hotel’s room service to ask for paramedics and
took two paracetamols for the pain before giving birth to an 8lb 8oz boy.

She had arrived at University College Hospital (UCH) in Central London around
midnight, but medical staff who assessed her told her that she was only in
the early stages of labour with her first child and advised her